With the release date for Rare’s Sea of Thieves fast approaching, the final push to convince the unconvinced that it’s a game worth giving a chance is on.

This week two new videos were released to accomplish this. The first is an eight-minute video going over all of the things you need to know before playing. And the second is a gameplay launch trailer.

Continue below for more info on Sea of Thieves and to check out the videos.

 

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A new trailer has been released for Sea of Thieves, the upcoming first-person adventure game from Donkey Kong Country, GoldenEye 007, and Perfect Dark Zero developer Rare that allows you and your friends to become pirates. It’s basically a childhood fantasy brought to life.

In addition to the trailer the developer also had some fans play the game for the first time and recorded the results to share with the masses, so the first gameplay footage has also been released.

Click on over to the other side now to give the trailer and gameplay a watch.

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